E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life
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#2Is "week long battery life" really a killer feature? As long as a phone has enough battery to make it through the 16 hours per day most of us are awake, anything more is just gold plating.
Just how big is the "week long battery life" niche?
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#3It could be useful in India or African countries with not much access to energy. But I doubt people from developed nations would want this. It most likely offers nowhere near the experience of an LCD device. Remember, besides the lack of color issue, e-ink devices work best when the on-screen image is static, and not changing often.
Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life
#4Is "week long battery life" really a killer feature? As long as a phone has enough battery to make it through the 16 hours per day most of us are awake, anything more is just gold plating. Just how big is the "week long battery life" niche?
It's huge. If I were Samsung or Motorola I'd manufacture a phone that is a) beautiful b) incredibly thin, light-weight and simplistic c) has a week battery life d) is absolutely feature-reduced. It'd have no app ecosystem or anything alike. It's capabilities would be reduced to a) phone calls b) SMS c) email (no attachments; maybe even no HTML) d) Facebook messenger. It'd have no browser.
Design-wise I'd make it almost as thin as a credit card and a screen 2/3 the size of the iPhone 4. A black and white screen would actually be perfect, even if that'd be an artificial limitation.
I'd call it: THE PHONE. Nothing more.
I know many people that'd buy this device.
You could even do something like RIM and offer worldwide email/messaging service.
Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life
#5It could be useful in India or African countries with not much access to energy. But I doubt people from developed nations would want this. It most likely offers nowhere near the experience of an LCD device. Remember, besides the lack of color issue, e-ink devices work best when the on-screen image is static, and not changing often.
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#6I have been thinking about a responsive e-ink for some time.
What I would love is a responsive e-ink screen to use for text editing, Imagine a large responsive e-ink screen that you can use for coding, reading, etc...
Although for coding it would also need some basic colours.
Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life
#7Is "week long battery life" really a killer feature? As long as a phone has enough battery to make it through the 16 hours per day most of us are awake, anything more is just gold plating. Just how big is the "week long battery life" niche?
Most phones should run for a week with no issues if rarely used. This (I guess, the site not loading) promises a week of active usage. It is useless as "normal" smartphone though because e-ink has a lot of latency and a low refresh rate.
edit: peterwiese, you have been ghosted for 2 months or so :(
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#8This could become an awesome secondary travel/camping phone. Sure when I'm home I generally remember to charge my phone every or every other night, but when out and about there are many times when charging is inconvenient of impossible.
Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life
#9I have been thinking about a responsive e-ink for some time. What I would love is a responsive e-ink screen to use for text editing, Imagine a large responsive e-ink screen that you can use for coding, reading, etc... Although for coding it would also need some basic colours.
Color would be great, though I think monochrome syntax highlighting would be a fair compromise for a first generation device. Bold for keywords, italic for comments or maybe strings. Maybe a few extra monospace fonts if you need more than that. Where's the kickstarter for this I can throw money at?
Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life
#10It could be useful in India or African countries with not much access to energy. But I doubt people from developed nations would want this. It most likely offers nowhere near the experience of an LCD device. Remember, besides the lack of color issue, e-ink devices work best when the on-screen image is static, and not changing often.
Maybe, but maybe not. If done well it could be an excellent travel phone. Personally, I like the idea.
Battery life is very important for a lot of people, especially when travelling. It would fantastic for reading on. It might be very light. Attractive travel phone.
If you think about it a minute, a lot of apps might be just as good with a simple, e-ink friendly UIs: exercise apps, audio players, chess, stop watch, contacts, weather, expensify, sms, skype, whatsapp, calendar, newspapers, bus schedule.
In fact, most apps either present information that you read (like magazines or calendars) or the important part is not in the UI (like music players). Some stuff would suck or break, like web browsers, maps and video (obviously) but not as much as my initial guess was.
The biggest problem I see is that to be e-ink friendly the phone would need to have the UI & apps modified specifically for it, so without a big market it won't work.